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Jia Tolentino on the Rise and Fall of the Internet
Episode 321
Jia Tolentino writes for The New Yorker about an extremely wide range of topics, but a central concern is what it has meant to her to have grown up a…
6 years, 6 months ago
Roger Federer Opens Up
Episode 320
The winner of twenty Grand Slam titles and the top-ranked men’s player for three hundred and ten weeks, Roger Federer remains a dominant force in ten…
6 years, 6 months ago
Derren Brown’s Big Secret
Episode 319
Derren Brown wants you to know that he is not a magician. The term he prefers to use is “psychological illusionist,” and his acts mix psychology, mis…
6 years, 6 months ago
Maggie Gyllenhaal on “The Deuce” and #MeToo
Episode 318
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s first starring role was in the 2002 movie “Secretary,” a distriburbing romantic comedy about a troubled woman in a sadomasochisti…
6 years, 7 months ago
Ian Frazier Among the Drone Racers
Episode 317
Ian Frazier, who has chronicled American life for The New Yorker for more than forty years, travelled to a house in Fort Collins, Colorado, where thr…
6 years, 7 months ago
The Rippling Effects of China’s One-Child Policy
Episode 316
Nanfu Wang grew up under China’s one-child policy and never questioned it. “You don’t know that it’s something initiated and implemented by the autho…
6 years, 7 months ago
Toni Morrison Talks with Hilton Als
Episode 315
Toni Morrison read The New York Times with pencil in hand. An editor by trade, Morrison never stopped noting errors in the paper. In 2015, during a c…
6 years, 7 months ago
Living in the Shadow of Guantánamo, Part 2
Episode 314
In January, The New Yorker’s Ben Taub travelled to Mauritania to meet with Mohamedou Salahi. An electrical engineer who had lived in Germany, Salahi …
6 years, 7 months ago
Living in the Shadow of Guantánamo
Episode 313
When Mohamedou Salahi arrived at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, in August of 2002, he was hopeful. He knew why he had been detained: he had cros…
6 years, 7 months ago
Summer, By The Book
Episode 312
The cultural critic Doreen St. Félix goes to Madame Tussauds with Justin Kuritzkes, the début author of the novel “Famous People,” to talk about the …
6 years, 7 months ago